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Sky TV buys 15,000 LG 3D displays for live broadcasting at UK public venues

By | March 16, 2010, 3:10am PDT

Summary: LG has announced a new partnership with Sky TV, with Sky picking up 15,000 3D TV screens for broadcasting live at public venues across the UK. Watching sports in a pub is about to get even more intense.

LG has announced a new partnership with Sky TV, with Sky picking up 15,000 3D TV screens for live broadcasting at public venues across the United Kingdom.  Watching sports in a pub is about to get even more intense.

Starting this spring, the LG 3D screens will be distributed for broadcasting weekly Premier League matches. Basically, Sky is hoping to draw viewers into the 3D TV station they’ve been developing, and LG wants to boost their image in the TV display market.

Maybe this whole 3D trend does have a purpose. Watching intense sports in 3D brings a new, exciting element to the game. Although, having to wear 3D glasses in a public place (rather than in the darkness of a movie theater) doesn’t sound appealing.

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Rachel King is a staff writer for CBS Interactive in San Francisco. Before serving as a contributing editor at ZDNet in New York City for two years, she previously worked for The Business Insider, FastCompany.com, CNN's San Francisco bureau and the U.S. Department of State. Rachel has also written for MainStreet.com, Irish America Magazine and the New York Daily News, among others. Rachel has a B.A. in Mass Communications and History from the University of California, Berkeley and a M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University, where she served as art director for the student magazine, Plated.

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RE: Sky TV buys 15,000 LG 3D displays for live broadcasting at UK public venues
FiOS-Dave 19th Mar 2010
To quote Dorothy Parker:

Men don't make passes at girls that wear glasses...

Maybe the reverse is also true???
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Tom-Tech 16th Mar 2010
...I reckon you'd be much less likely to have people getting into drunken fights when they're wearing those big glasses.

It'd be like something from a Monty Python sketch.
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RE: Sky TV buys 15,000 LG 3D displays for live broadcasting at UK public venues
haitge@... 16th Mar 2010
Could be an interesting play. Remember the Olympic Summer Games are there in 2012.
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FiOS-Dave 19th Mar 2010
To quote Dorothy Parker:

Men don't make passes at girls that wear glasses...

Maybe the reverse is also true???

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